Of Blood & Honey: Rituals for the Unforgiven, by Evelyn Rhys

Poetry, chapbook, 48 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Of Blood & Honey: Rituals for the Unforgiven is Evelyn Rhys’s debut poetry collection. It is a haunting journey that moves like a seance through grief, womanhood, and the dark divinity of survival. Moonlit confessions and ancestral fires are at the heart of this collection. Rhys draws on mythic archetypes and visceral language of the flesh to transform pain into sacred incantation. This collection is a journey through a landscape where every wound is a portal.

Structured like a ritual, this chapbook calls to the women who were never meant to survive but did. Each poem is an offering, a rebellion, and a homecoming. Rhys’s voice is both tender and relentless, turning trauma into gold and ash. She will challenge you to explore your own darkness and celebrate your survival. Of Blood & Honey invites readers to step into the fire and come out reborn.

Evelyn Rhys, pseudonym for Rachel Reynolds, is a poet and emerging voice in contemporary dark feminist literature. She thrives on exploring themes that she’s been advised to avoid her whole life: ritual, survival, trauma, and inherited memory. Born under a Scorpio sun and raised in the deep south, her writing blends mysticism with sharp honesty. Pulling from her background in forensic psychology, myth, and magic, she writes under candlelight and dreams of ocean-front altars. She channels the voice and experience of a Victorian woman, floating through her estate in a tattered night gown, and staring out the window waiting for her husband to return home.